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Includes biography and chronology, instrumental music, media works, recordings, selected program notes, and links. When his album silver apples of the moon was released in the late 1960s, it represented an entirely new era of composition. Knowing nothing about wind instruments, he picked a clarinet purely based on the name, but was disappointed when the instrument that arrived was not a. Apr 20, 2008 a true pioneer of electronic music, morton subotnick s work is usually not the easiest music to listen to, but if youre willing to give it your time and attention, it can be very rewarding. Created on the buchla electronic music system and recorded in quadraphonic sound, touch by morton subotnick, is another early electronic music masterpiece by the pioneering american composer. Touch jacobs room please retry price new from used from mp3 music, october 21, 2011. Morton subotnick released the first allelectronic album, silver apples of the moon, in 1967. Touch a sky of cloudless sulphurgestures morton subotnick on allmusic 2001 this release is an audiophiles dream. This version of gestures requires downloading two sizeable folders to your computer. Back in a time when space travel to spheres other than our own was a near possibility just out of reach, the robotic chirrups and steely fauna of morton subotnicks silver apples of the moon must have literally sounded like a transmission from another planet.
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Morton subotnick born april 14, 1933 is an american composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition silver apples of the moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, nonesuch. In morton subotnicks imagination, electronic music gained accessibility and playfulness, a potential source of interest and joy for listeners of any age or musical experience, like creative cartooning, painting on a canvas, or taking a trip to a please touch museum. Listen to the latest music, tracks by top artists, search for music, lyrics, songs, or videos. Take the music experience to the next level with our online music player. Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon. The primary instrument was the reeltoreel tape machine, and although there were oscillators, they were part of laboratories, not synthesizers. Nonesuch records released morton subotnicks silver apples of the moon in. This is internet archive avant garde project installment agp06 morton subotnick.
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The first of three subotnick works touch dates from l969 and was created on fourchannel tape and then issued on a columbia sq lp with its problematic loss of separation between the front and back channels. Parallel lines is one of subotnicks ghost pieces for live soloist and electronics. He was one of the founding members of california institute of the arts, where he taught for many years. The ghost series is a unique method of blending electronics with live performances so that the effect of the electronics is not audible unless the performer is making a sound. When morton subotnick started his career in electronic music at the dawn of the 1960s, the genre barely. Take me to the internet archive avant garde project home, morpheus. Morton subotnick born april 14, 1933 is an american composer of electronic music, best. A leading innovator in works involving instruments and other media, his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre. The first of three subotnick works touch dates from l969 and was created on. Portrait of an electronic music pioneer, a planned featurelength documentary about seminal electronic music composer, morton subotnick have reached their goal for funding production via an indiegogo campaign. For the next internet archive avant garde project installment, here. Morton subotnick composer 1933 play streams in full or download mp3 from classical archives, the largest and best organized classical.